Green paint: goodbye, and good riddance!

Getting ready to primer

First of all, the big news: we are getting our counters on Tuesday! I am so excited. We'll be well on our way to having a normal kitchen again!

In the meantime, we wanted to make our kitchen less green. The paint color, that is. Lots of people have said that they really like the color, but neither of US do. I don't mind it *as a color*, I just don't like it at all in this space.

We covered the cabinets with plastic a while ago in preparation for painting. So today, I worked on painting primer over the half of the kitchen that was ready for it. 

Too much green!

Goodbye, purple!

There was also this last remaining patch of purple that we didn't paint over when we repainted the living room.

After the first coat of primer

One coat of primer over the purple paint...one more to go

And voila! Even without the bright light, the room already looks much brighter and more spacious. Next, we paint on texture. 

Painting the Living Room

Once the walls were fixed, with all wallpaper removed, new drywall hung, and lathe plaster repaired, we were finally ready to give everything a fresh coat of paint.

Justin and Juniper testing the texture primer for coverage on the red wall. Looks like we'll need to use KILLZ!

We're sticking with white for the time being, just to get something on the walls. We'll choose some more interesting colors later on, once other big projects are finished and we've had some time to settle into the place. We added texture to the walls, too, even though we both prefer flat walls. Despite our best efforts at fixing all the cracks in the lathe plaster, there are still some imperfections, and the texture helps disguise them.

Living room, after the second coat of primer and texture

We also painted over the faux ceiling-tiles because we really didn't want to deal with taking them down. They had been an ugly taupe color that neither of us liked. But once coated with white paint, they actually look pretty nice. Amazing what a change of color can do!